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VOI, IV., NO. 19.
PINEHURST, X. C, MAR. 15, 1901.
PRICE THREE CENTS
IX MEMORY OF MRS. MAY COOK SHARP.
Spirits of Music hear and bless!
" Unite her with the heavenly choir
And soothe her with your softest lyre;
For she was music's votaress,
And could at touch our spirits heal,
Of all life's joys aware and glad,
Or with a note now sweetly sad
Her own heart stirrings make us feel.
Spirit of song calm his distress!
To him she left her heart unite
With love now made more infinite
And with a larger power to bless.
Mrs. Hay t'ook Sharp.
It is with feelings of deep regr t we
have to report the sudden calling away
of I'inehurst's favorite musician, Mrs.
May Cook Sharp, which took place on
Thursday evening, March 7th, 1901.
She was a woman greatly loved by all
who knew her, and the sad event cast a
deep gloom over all, and for a time was
the absorbing topic of conversation. Her
loss to Pinehurst is a very severe one.
She will be very much missed bv her
very large circle or friends to whom, by
her kindness and affability, she was very
dear.
Heartfelt sympathy is felt for Mr.
Sharp in this the deepest hour of trial in
a man's life. The condolence of his
many friemU is hereby offered him.
Mrs. May Cook Sharp was born at
Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1870. She
studied with her father, Prof. E. Cook,
the leading music teacher of Portland,
Oregon, until the year 1890. From 1890
to 1804 she .was in Berlin at Prof.
Carl Klindworth's, the director of the
Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory of
Music. Since that time until last season
she has been nlavinsr in California and
the west and last year here.. She was
married to Director Sharp on April 21st,
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make it as much an offence against good
manners as profanity or drunkenness are.
If we are generous, we may forgive the
occasional spleen of those suffering from
bad digestion, or disappointed hopes. But
no conuonation can- ne given to tnose
who love to carp and criticise; who
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their expectations fulfilled; to whom
every weight is short and every balance
wanting; who' think they show their
superiority to the common mind by nice
discriminations against people, places,
p ditical parties, creeds in a word, by
their assiduously cultivated dissatisfac
tion with the universe. h it was at
first, nrnmnted bv vanitv soon becomes
chronic, and they enjoy running counter
t accepted opinions as a swimmer loves
to breast a current.
But retribution stands at the door; for
Prophets of Evil.
Of all the afflictions that a merciful
heaven has sent to this sorrowing world
the most inscrutible is the man or woman
who has carefully prepared himself each
day to welcome the most disagreeable
things that could possibly happen.
If a friend is indisposed, this prophet
of evil, having clarvoyant glimpses into
the future, reports his conviction that
the illness, to his mind, is most serious,
that family friends should prepare them
selves for the worst. If the day is
ucleinent, he announces that it is the
fore-runner of the stormiest season of
years. If the sun shines merrily, it
bodes a change. In his calendar spring
ever belated, evil has the mastery and
misfortune is the daily companion of
'"unkind. He feels himself divinely com
missioned to reduce the enthusiasm of
the over-sanguine, to shrivel hope and
""ppmess with gloomy predictions. He
Js usually successful; for in his presence
ineitm-u visible drop in the temperature
It is time for society to rebel again t
cne wanton crueltyof such people and
landscape, to see a pall deliberately
stretched over our sky, to have emphasis
laid upon the unpleasant or painful
things we are trying to blink it is intol
erable. Brave and sweet was that soul who
wrote: "Since I arrived at years of
reflection I have never allowed myself to
speak to others of my private griefs, my
forebodings of the future or my bodily
ailments lest I should unwittingly grieve
some heart that had perhaps already as
heavy a burden of sorrow as it could
bear." L. O. S.
Benefits of a Season at Pinehurst.
First of all the benefits of a Pinehurst
season must be named the escape from
the inclemencies of a northern winter.
Health and strength" are presei ved and
increased, and guests return to their
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A BED-ROOM IX THE CAROLINA.
come from your neighborhood, who
know your friends and you theirs. But
fortius we need not travel a thousand
miles. If this is all we come for or lind
most agreeable, it were just as well to"
have remained at home. It is better not
only to change our skies, but our 'whole
outlook, if possible .even ourselves and
our little world of whimsies and parish
opinions, and for once live a larger, ireer
and more cosmopolitan life. Let us wel
come the man from a distance, who has
never so much as heard of our village or
its great men, and who can tell us of
new things, new manners, and just as
like as not, give us a new idea.
r.arlliquake.
There was a small earthquake last
week in Manchester, X. II., which shook
not the foundations of the city but the
crockery cupboards and parlor mantles
and tables so that much bric-a-brac tum
bled to the floor. Good for the earth
quake say we, and we wish it would
come again and stay longer. For if there
is anything that now cumbers the earth
with its worthless, presence aud needs
destruction more than so-called bric-a-brac
we do not know where to find it.
When one goes into an elegaut city
house and sees the rubbish which crowds
all the rooms aud which the occupants
suppose to be works of art merely from
their cost he does not care so much,,
knowing such people have money to
spend foolishly aud that they might as
well spend it in that way as another.
But to see this waste of good money in
the homes of laborers and people of
moderate means is a sad and depressing
spectacle, not more for the worth less
ness of the ornaments themselves than
for the extravagance and uneducated
taste which they so flaringly exhibit.
Let the earthquakes quake and shake
until no bric-a-brac are left in all the
earth.
ti.P nffpmler is bv common consent cut
off from "all that constitutes the poetry of
ifafmm sharimr in the tresn euum-
siasm, the quick sympathy and nobler
utterances of his associates as uu. -
he were deaf and dumb. J? or wno
expose his ideals to a rebuff or suffer Ins
aspirations to be cheapened? In the
presence of prophets of evil conversation
soon descends to common-places if it has
not already been trapped into futile con
troversy. But the wrong is far beyond a tempo
rary chilling of expression; it often
darkens the whole day and wounds the
heart of sensitive people. Human life
not so sweet, so full of joy that we can
carry needless burdens jauntily. Most oi
us are hiding private sorrows that are all
but unbearable. It takes whatever cour
age and strength that we can summon to
meet each day bravely and serenely, We
need every possible help and every raj
of sunshine to see our way clearly, and
to have the color strained out of the
homes with a store of energy and spirits
to take up afresh the burdens of busi
ness and the common duties of life. We
notice among most guests a certain spirit
of cheerfulness, due in part no doubt to
freedom from cares; that will be a good
thing to take home and distribute among
our Too serious or anxious friends.
"Your merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a."
We think no one stays in Pinehurst
without picking up some new facts and
observations in regard to the conditions
of life in the south as seen among both
the white and colored people, and no
one can fail to carry away some sym
pathy and a much better understanding
of the difficulties under which they labor
difficulties of education, want of capi
tal and poor soil. Every such enlarge
.f nur outlook is a gain; and to
,n,v he added the broadening of the
mind by contact with persons from all
puts of the country. It is certainly
Pleiant to meet those who chance to
The Itiffht of Nuffrajce.
in last week's Outlook a V star
article in relation to the suffrage ques
tion in states where the negro is a wige
factor in the population, advances some
curious ideas. Education, according to
the writer, would almost, seem to oe a
bar to the right .of suffrage. "Plain peo
ple," whatever that may mean are the
safest rulers. The writer leaves us to
infer that the negro, with centuries of
barbarism behind him, stands on the
same plane as the white race in an intel
ligent comprehension of the duties of
citizenship.
Booker T. Washington and W. II.
Thomas both recognize the mistake made
in giving unlimited suffrage to the blacks
because of its injurious effects upon thein.
Qualified suffrage would have been a
stimulus. They would have been much
further advanced in all that goes to make
good citizens had the right of suffrage
been conferred as a reward of intelli-